A new way to neutralize coronavirus and other membrane-surrounded viruses has been discovered by researchers from the Swedish ...

It started as a respiratory illness – or so everyone thought. But it quickly became apparent that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that ...

Glycoproteins typically bind to receptors on the membrane of a host cell. Viruses that do not bud from the host cell membrane do not have an envelope, so they are called “naked” or ...

The virus and lung-cell membranes fuse. Spike decapitation allows the fusion machinery to unfold. The machinery inserts itself into the cell membrane and a channel forms, allowing N proteins and ...

The first step for a virus to invade a cell is to cross the cell's plasma membrane, which is a lipid barrier. In general, a virus consists of one or more layers of protein that enclose its viral ...

As the seasonal flu picks up, there are even more opportunities for the bird flu to acquire mutations as the different ...

Fusion with, or penetration through, cell membranes might involve multimolecular protein complexes and requires structural rearrangements of membrane lipids. Inhibitors of virus entry can prevent ...

Scientists at the University of São Paulo analyzed blood samples donated by six serodiscordant couples where female partners ...

Current technologies for studying membrane proteins either involve expression in cell-based systems ... in the membrane envelope of herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) virions. The technology is ...

Certain mineral nanoparticles were found to damage the membrane of the virus, making it less able to enter human cells. The mode of action that is demonstrated has not been discussed in previous ...

In both of those cases, virus samples showed that once it was in the body, it mutated in ways that would allow it to stick to cells in the mucous membrane lining the upper respiratory tract.